"chimp's sequences and his natural antics are good for plenty of laughter."" Richard L. Coe of ""The Washington Post"" wrote, ""If you can stomach all this, you'll find some giggles in this farce, which is okay when paying attention to the recently deceased chimp, but is perfectly terrible when trying to tell its story. Ronald Reagan, as the naive professor of things mental, must have felt like the world's sappiest straight man playing this silly role, and the others aren't much better off."" On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67%, based on"
"Raphael Blau Raphael David Blau (August 11, 1912 – March 31, 1996) was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the story for ""Bedtime for Bonzo"" (1951), among other film productions. Blau was raised in New York City and London. His first film credit was for ""Mother Is a Freshman"" (1949). Based on seeing research speculation that a chimpanzee might be able to be raised like a human child, he conceived of the ""Bedtime for Bonzo"" story. He shared a script with his brother-in-law, Ted Berkman, and becoming partners on this and other projects, both received a story credit for the film."
"and was published in 1969. He wrote three more books during the 1970s including ""My Prisoner"", cowritten with Janey Jimenez about Patty Hearst. His final book, a memoir, was published in 1998. Berkman died of cancer in 2006 in Santa Barbara, California. 2006. Ted Berkman Ted Berkman (January 9, 1914 – May 12, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist best known for writing the screenplay for ""Bedtime for Bonzo"". He was born Edward Oscar Berkmann in Brooklyn, New York in 1914. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family and attended Cornell University, graduating in 1933, and Columbia"
"""Fear Strikes Out"" (1957) brought Blau and Berkman their greatest acclaim. In 1962, Blau and his wife Helen moved to Nova Scotia. Their son Joel Blau is a professor at Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare in New York. Their daughter Deborah Blau is a graphic artist and tour guide who lives in New York. Raphael Blau Raphael David Blau (August 11, 1912 – March 31, 1996) was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the story for ""Bedtime for Bonzo"" (1951), among other film productions. Blau was raised in New York City and London. His first film credit was for"
"Ted Berkman Ted Berkman (January 9, 1914 – May 12, 2006) was an American author, screenwriter and journalist best known for writing the screenplay for ""Bedtime for Bonzo"". He was born Edward Oscar Berkmann in Brooklyn, New York in 1914. He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family and attended Cornell University, graduating in 1933, and Columbia University. Before World War II, he wrote a couple of film scripts and as a journalist for the ""New York Daily Mirror"". During World War II, he worked as an intelligence officer for the US Army. After the war, Berkman worked as a"
"John A. Alonzo John A. Alonzo, ASC (June 12, 1934 – March 13, 2001) was an American cinematographer, television director, and actor known for his incredibly diverse body of work in both film and television. Alonzo pioneered handheld work, lighting techniques and HD video development during his career. He is remembered mainly for ""Chinatown"" (1974) and ""Scarface"" (1983), the former for which he was nominated for both a BAFTA and an Academy Award. In addition, he was the recipient of a Primetime Emmy for his work on the 2000 CBS television adaptation of ""Fail Safe"". Alonzo was the first American"
"Rock Hudson Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Viewed as a prominent ""heartthrob"" of the Hollywood Golden Age, he achieved stardom with roles in films such as ""Magnificent Obsession"" (1954), ""All That Heaven Allows"" (1955) and ""Giant"" (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day in ""Pillow Talk"" (1959), ""Lover Come Back"" (1961) and ""Send"
"David Opatoshu David Opatoshu (born David Opatovsky, January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was born in New York City, where he was reared and educated. His father was the Yiddish writer Joseph Opatoshu. His career in television began in 1949 and lasted through the 1980s. In the fall of 1953, he played a theatrical agent representing Ezio Pinza's title character in the NBC situation comedy ""Bonino"". Other costars were Mary Wickes, Chet Allen, and Van Dyke Parks. The series focused upon an Italian American opera singer trying to rear his"
"Richard Benedict Richard ""Pepe"" Benedict (born Riccardo Benedetto, Palermo, January 8, 1920 – Studio City, April 25, 1984) was an Italian-American television and film actor and director. He appeared in dozens of television programs and movies from the 1940s to the 1960s, most notably ""Ace in the Hole"" (1951), directed by Billy Wilder. Benedict appeared with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the 1960 movie ""Ocean's 11"" as one of the 11 men who rob five Las Vegas casinos on the same night. He also played the commander of the Mars rescue ship in the 1958 B sci-fi movie"
"Bonino (TV series) Bonino is an ethnic situation comedy television series starring Ezio Pinza (1892–1957) as an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear his six children after the death of their mother. The program aired on live NBC from September 12 to December 26, 1953. Pinza's character is named Babbo Bonino. Character actress Mary Wickes (1910–1995) portrayed Martha the housekeeper, a role which she filled over the years in numerous other series. The actors portraying the children were Conrad Janis (born 1928), later of ABC-TV's sitcom ""Mork & Mindy"", as eldest son Edward, Lenka Peterson (born 1925) as older daughter"
"Bullock for the release of """" in 2013. Robert Costanzo Robert Jason Costanzo (born October 20, 1942) is an American actor. He has an acting career spanning over thirty years and is often found playing surly New York City types such as crooks, low-level workers and policemen, and mixes both drama and comedy roles. Costanzo is also a prominent voice actor, and often serves as a voice double for Danny DeVito. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is the son of actor Carmine Constanzo. His first role was in the 1975 movie ""Dog Day Afternoon"" playing a cop, although this"
"The Mob (film) The Mob is a 1951 film noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Broderick Crawford as a hard-nosed cop who infiltrates the Mob in order to bust their illegal dockyard activities. The actor Charles Bronson makes one of his first film appearances as a longshoreman and was uncredited. Johnny Damico (Broderick Crawford), a detective going home in the rain one night, finds himself just a few feet from a shooting on a dark street, where the gunman claims to be a detective from another precinct, flashing a real badge—and then slipping away. Damico discovers"
"Lust for Life (film) Lust for Life is a 1956 American biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Irving Stone which was adapted for the screen by Norman Corwin. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh, James Donald as his brother Theo, with Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, and Anthony Quinn. Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his performance, while Quinn won the Academy Award for"
"Luciano Pigozzi Luciano Pigozzi, also known professionally as Alan Collins (10 January 1927 – 14 June 2008), was an Italian character actor. A long-time staple of Italian genre cinema, Pigozzi was known for such films as ""Human Cobras"", ""Yor, the Hunter from the Future"", ""Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman"", ""Blood and Black Lace"", ""Libido"" and perhaps his goriest role in ""Baron Blood"". Born in Novellara, province of Reggio Emilia, in Italy; he appeared in more than one hundred films between 1954 and 1989, including many 1960s Italian thrillers such as ""Terror-Creatures from the Grave"", ""Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory"" and ""The"
"Elmo Lincoln Elmo Lincoln (born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt) (February 6, 1889June 27, 1952) was an American film actor. Lincoln is best known in his silent movie role as the first Tarzan in 1918's ""Tarzan of the Apes"" as an adult (Gordon Griffith played him as a child in the same movie). He portrayed the character twice more—in ""The Romance of Tarzan"" (also 1918) and in the 1921 serial ""The Adventures of Tarzan"". Following the end of the silent movie era, Elmo left Hollywood and tried his hand at mining. In the late 1930s, he returned to the film industry, most"
"Montgomery Clift Edward Montgomery ""Monty"" Clift (; October 17, 1920 – July 23, 1966) was an American actor. His ""New York Times"" obituary noted his portrayal of ""moody, sensitive young men"". He is best remembered for roles in ""Red River"" (1948), ""The Heiress"" (1949), ""A Place in the Sun"" (1951), Alfred Hitchcock's ""I Confess"" (1953), ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953), ""The Young Lions"" (1958), ""Judgment at Nuremberg"" (1961), and ""The Misfits"" (1961). He received four Academy Award nominations during his career: three for Best Actor and one for Best Supporting Actor. Along with Marlon Brando and James Dean, Clift was"
"Tonight for Sure Tonight for Sure is a 1962 Western softcore comedy film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It was written by Coppola and Jerry Shaffer. Jack Hill was the Director of Photography. The music was composed by Carmine Coppola. It is a film set in August 1961 on the Sunset Strip starring Karl Schanzer and Don Kenney and featuring Electra, Exotica, Laura Cornell, Karla Lee, and Sue Martin. The film features footage from ""The Peeper"" (a short sexploitation film of Coppola's), and an unfinished Western set in a nudist colony. On the Sunset Strip, two unlikely men rendezvous: Samuel"
"Carl Monson Carl Monson (September 2, 1932 – August 4, 1988) a.k.a. Carlos Monsoya, Charles Monsoya and Nosnom Lrak, was at the forefront of independent low budget sexploitation/grindhouse films or paracinema during the 1970s and 1980s. He is most well known for ""Blood Legacy"" (1971), ""Booby Trap"" (1973) and ""Death Feud"" (1986). Monson got his start at the prestigious Pasadena Playhouse’s school of theatre, known as the Hollywood “Star Factory.” In 1964, with his first wife Laura Shelton, he founded the Curtain Call Theater in North Hollywood, a critically acclaimed invitational playhouse run by professional actors on a cooperative basis."
"Whip and the Body"". Pigozzi died in 2008, at age 81. Luciano Pigozzi Luciano Pigozzi, also known professionally as Alan Collins (10 January 1927 – 14 June 2008), was an Italian character actor. A long-time staple of Italian genre cinema, Pigozzi was known for such films as ""Human Cobras"", ""Yor, the Hunter from the Future"", ""Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman"", ""Blood and Black Lace"", ""Libido"" and perhaps his goriest role in ""Baron Blood"". Born in Novellara, province of Reggio Emilia, in Italy; he appeared in more than one hundred films between 1954 and 1989, including many 1960s Italian thrillers such as"
"Voodoo Man Voodoo Man is a 1944 American horror film directed by William Beaudine and starring Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, and George Zucco. Nicholas (George Zucco) runs a filling station in the sticks. In reality, he is helping Dr. Richard Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) capture comely young ladies so he can transfer their life essences to his long-dead wife. Also assisting is Toby (John Carradine), who lovingly shepherds the left-over zombie girls and pounds on bongos during voodoo ceremonies. The hero is a Hollywood screenwriter who, at the end of the picture, turns the experience into a script titled ""Voodoo Man""."
"3, 2012, aged 70, from cancer. Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Zalman King Lefkowitz dropped his last name at the beginning of his acting career. In 1964, he played a gang member in ""Memo from Purgatory"", an episode of the television series ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig. Between 1965 and 1967 King appeared in 5 episodes of"
"in 1992. She died that same year of cancer. Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1939) is an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series """" (1993–99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction/horror film ""Alien"" (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film ""The Running Man"" (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller ""Midnight Run"" (1988) as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely. Kotto was born in"
"Ben Gazzara Biagio Anthony Gazzarra (August 28, 1930 – February 3, 2012), known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include ""Anatomy of a Murder"" (1959), ""Voyage of the Damned"" (1976), ""Inchon"" (1981), ""Road House"" (1989), ""The Big Lebowski"" (1998), ""Buffalo '66"" (1998), ""Happiness"" (1998), ""The Thomas Crown Affair"" (1999), ""Summer of Sam"" (1999), ""Dogville"" (2003) and ""Paris, je t'aime"" (2006). He was a recurring collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on ""Husbands"" (1970), ""The Killing of a Chinese Bookie"" (1976) and ""Opening Night"" (1977). As the star of"
"on March 3, 2012, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his home in Woodstock, New York. Leonardo Cimino Leonardo Cimino (November 4, 1917 – March 3, 2012) was an American film, television and stage actor who in 1937 appeared in the original stage production of Marc Blitzstein's ""The Cradle Will Rock"". Cimino's most well known roles are in the 1983 science fiction miniseries, ""V"" as Abraham Bernstein and the 1987 feature film ""The Monster Squad"" as the ""scary German guy."" Despite a popular misconception, Cimino was no relation to Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer/director Michael Cimino. Born in Manhattan, Cimino was the son"
"Zalman King Zalman King (born Zalman King Lefkowitz; May 23, 1941 – February 3, 2012) was an American film director, writer, actor and producer. His films are known for incorporating sexuality, and are often categorized as erotica. Zalman King Lefkowitz dropped his last name at the beginning of his acting career. In 1964, he played a gang member in ""Memo from Purgatory"", an episode of the television series ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"" written by Harlan Ellison and featuring actors James Caan and Walter Koenig. Between 1965 and 1967 King appeared in 5 episodes of the TV show ""Gunsmoke"". King played"
"Valentino (1951 film) Valentino is a 1951 American Technicolor adventure drama film billed as the life story of film legend Rudolph Valentino. Valentino was played by near lookalike actor Anthony Dexter. Rudolph Valentino arrives in America and becomes a movie star. He falls in love with an actress and dies an early death. Edward Small had announced the project in 1938, with Jack Dunn first mooted to play the title role as a follow up to his debut in ""The Duke of West Point"". However the film had been delayed by script troubles, legal threats, the war, troubles making a"
"I love you. God bless. Michael (Mr Wayne) Keaton."" Gough was added in ""In Memoriam"" at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English"
"Award for Outstanding Miniseries. In 1971 he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Giuliano Montaldo Giuliano Montaldo (born 22 February 1930 in Genoa) is an Italian film director. While he was still a young student, Montaldo was recruited by the director Carlo Lizzani for the role of leading actor in the film ""Achtung! Banditi!"" (1951). Following this experience he began an apprenticeship as an assistant director of Lizzani and Gillo Pontecorvo, as well as appearing in the 1955 ""Gli Sbandati"". In 1960 he made his debut as a director with ""Tiro al piccione"","
"Wasp Woman"" (1959) and ""The Wild World of Batwoman"" (1966), and also directed a few such as ""Female Jungle"" (1955), ""The Brain Eaters"" (1958) and ""Invasion of the Star Creatures"" (1962). In the 1960s he played the barman in a number of episodes of ""Bonanza"". Following a heart attack, Bruno VeSota died in Los Angeles in 1976, in at the age of 54. Bruno VeSota Bruno William Ve Sota (March 25, 1922 — September 24, 1976) was an American character actor, director and producer who, between 1945 and 1974, appeared in hundreds of television episodes and over 50 feature films."
"Ronnie Dapo Ronald L. Dapo (born May 8, 1952, Plattsburgh, New York) is an American former child actor who appeared in supporting roles in such television series as the ABC/Warner Brothers situation comedy ""Room for One More"" (1962) and CBS's ""The New Phil Silvers Show"" (1964). Dapo began acting in 1959 at the age of seven when he played Billy Lacy in John Bromfield's syndicated series ""U.S. Marshal"". That same year he appeared as Ronnie in ""The Alcoa Hour"" in the episode ""Another Day, Another Dollar"" and in ""The Greenhorn Story"" of NBC's western series ""Wagon Train"" starring Ward Bond."
"Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1939) is an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series """" (1993–99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction/horror film ""Alien"" (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film ""The Running Man"" (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller ""Midnight Run"" (1988) as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely. Kotto was born in New York City. His mother was Gladys Marie, a"
"BRADY Special to The New York Times. (1949, Dec 15). METRO WILL FILM 'LIFE OF CARUSO'. New York Times (1923-Current File) I'll Get You for This I'll Get You for This (released in the US as Lucky Nick Cain) is a 1951 British thriller film by Joseph M. Newman starring George Raft, Coleen Gray, and Enzo Staiola. It was made from an adaptation by George Callahan and William Rose of James Hadley Chase's 1946 book of the same name. The setting was shifted from Las Vegas in the novel to an Italian gambling resort. It was one of the first"
"film ""The Making of Rock Hudson"" scripted by Tyler Ruggeri, currently in development with Maven Pictures and Gadabout: A Moving Picture Company. Rock Hudson Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor, generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Viewed as a prominent ""heartthrob"" of the Hollywood Golden Age, he achieved stardom with roles in films such as ""Magnificent Obsession"" (1954), ""All That Heaven Allows"" (1955) and ""Giant"" (1956), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and"